He always wore his influences on his sleeve. JP Donleavy, Faulkner, Mencken, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Hemingway. He used and re-used the last line from A Farewell To Arms, over and over: “I walked back to the hotel in the rain.”
Legend has it that he retyped a Hemingway novel to understand how the writer got his effects.
— Warren Ellis, on Hunter Thompson’s death, almost 5 years ago
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